I Will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear
Of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
To allow my living to open me
To make me less afraid,
More accessible
To loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance
To live
So that which came to me as a seed
Goes to the next as blossom
And that which came
to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit
-Dawna Markova